Loveless

'Loveless' ✭✭✭ The sort of cubicle dweller "Dilbert" warns us about, Andrew is a jerk. But the fledgling screenwriter protagonist of writer-director Ramin Serry's droll Manhattan comedy "Loveless" works like human Teflon, each new tricky or awkward or dangerous social situation (mostly of his own making) sliding right off his hard-to-read surface. Andrew von Urtz plays Andrew, and more than the name suggests a layer of autobiography at work. As he...

The most difficult album to make just might be the one where the artist knows people will be paying attention. After one obscure release and a second album that brought her a wave of acclaim, Lydia Loveless met the challenge earlier this year on her third full-length, "Somewhere Else" (Bloodshot). But not without some speed bumps along the way. "Verlaine Shot Rimbaud" is in many ways the album's key song, about a passion so deep that it turns violent, based on the...

A lot of mainstream country artists sell big on the charts, but get little to no respect from alternative and traditional country music fans. Enter Patty Loveless, one of the few major label country artists to successfully straddle that fence. The soft-spoken, low-key Loveless has always been more artist than celebrity. "I used to be real uncomfortable when I'd read reviews saying I was a country music 'star,'" Loveless says. "I was shy of the limelight, but I enjoyed singing...

3.5 stars (out of 4) "Somewhere Else" Lydia Loveless Lydia Loveless' narrators are part of a long tradition: the bleary, haunted bar-fly in a Sinatra saloon ballad, the betrayed wife in a Loretta Lynn two-step who can't decide whether she wants to kill her husband or fight to keep him, the bruised but indomitable girls-next-door who fell hard for the bad boys in the Shangri-La's, the love-as-drug-withdrawal narratives of Lucinda Williams....

Dear Abby: "Sick at Heart" wrote that she is trapped in a loveless marriage because after being divorced, she made a religious commitment that she would never leave her second husband. She said the love is long gone and that her doctor has not been able to successfully medicate her severe depression. You advised her to talk with her spiritual adviser. I am a spiritual adviser, and I would like to direct my comments to that woman: I strongly feel that in a marriage made by God, two...

2.5 stars (out of 4) After a deafening 21-year silence, My Bloody Valentine finally got around to releasing “m b v” Saturday on its Web site (mybloodyvalentine.org), the follow-up to one of the more revered and influential albums of recent decades. The U.K. quartet's last previous studio release, “Loveless” (1991), isn't just considered a cult classic, it introduced a new musical language. It also inspired a legion of disciples in the same way that modest-selling...

Patty Loveless-whose new single, "On Down the Line," is vaulting up the country hit charts even though her last one, "Chains," refuses to die-says she owes a lot of her escalating popularity to the strong male acts for whom she has opened shows during the past three years: such people as George Jones, Randy Travis, Willie Nelson and, most recently, George Strait. "Working with them all has been really good exposure for me," said Loveless, who added that she has been awaiting the opportunity to work with Strait...

PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union's Nobel peace prize comes just as a realization is dawning that Europe's single currency - the EU's most ambitious project - has survived three years of incessant financial turmoil and is not going to break up. But having narrowly avoided an acrimonious divorce and the loss of some of its errant children, the euro zone risks a future as an unequal, loveless marriage with frequent rows and the prospect of separate...

My Bloody Valentine Loveless (Sire) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) All but dispensing with niceties such as chord progressions and choruses, this Dublin outfit has written a new vocabulary for the guitar, and perhaps given it another 10 years of life as rock's central instrument. The 11 compositions on "Loveless" aren`t so much tunes as sonic structures that ebb and surge, a collage of guitars, disembodied voices and sampled sounds. At times, the listener feels caught between...

The positions of Bishop Spong are absolutely abhorrent! If there are no moral standards, no right and wrong, then why bother to have churches at all? The Episcopal bishop is indicating that "anything goes," and with his philosophy, everything will! Why should Bishop Spong turn his back on the Ten Commandments in order to become part of the crowd? True freedom lies within discipline; without it, we become loveless savages, struggling in a self-made jungle!

Lydia Loveless does a lot of venting on her second album and debut for Chicago-based Bloodshot Records, “Indestructible Machine.” Growing up in rural Ohio outside Coshocton, population 11,000, Loveless says feeling like an outcast was inspiring in a perverse kind of way. “One good thing about not having a lot of friends,” she says with a laugh, “it gave me plenty of time to write songs.” “I lived on a farm with 200 cattle, horses,...

Downers Grove police believe alcohol played a major role in an early Sunday traffic accident that killed a recent Downers Grove North High School graduate and injured four other youths. David L. Patrick, 18, of 718 Grant St., Downers Grove, was pronounced dead at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood at 2:27 a.m. Sunday, according to a spokesman of the Cook County medical examiner's office. He died after the car he was driving collided with a car driven by Robert A. Loveless, 18, of 4525...

3.5 stars (out of 4) The merger of country and punk has a long, irascible history, a plainspoken chronicle of everyday outsiders from the Knitters to Hank Williams III trying to find their place in a world that doesn't deal well with surly bad girls (or boys) who speak their minds. Lydia Loveless, a 21-year-old Ohio singer-songwriter, joins that rowdy tradition on her second album and first for Chicago-based Bloodshot Records, “Indestructible Machine”...

By Dr. Ruth Westheimer, (copyright) 1998 Karola Inc., All Rights Reserved. Distributed by King Features Syndicate | November 12, 1998

Q. Has the fear of infectious diseases kept more married couples home without sex? A. Certainly there are couples who now stay together rather than divorce because they are afraid of the risks they'd encounter in today's dating scene. While trying to keep a marriage together can be a good thing, it does neither party any good if it isn't accompanied by a strong effort to repair any damage that has been done. If a couple were once sufficiently attracted to each...

'Loveless' ✭✭✭ The sort of cubicle dweller "Dilbert" warns us about, Andrew is a jerk. But the fledgling screenwriter protagonist of writer-director Ramin Serry's droll Manhattan comedy "Loveless" works like human Teflon, each new tricky or awkward or dangerous social situation (mostly of his own making) sliding right off his hard-to-read surface. Andrew von Urtz plays Andrew, and more than the name suggests a layer of autobiography at work. As he...

2.5 stars (out of 4) After a deafening 21-year silence, My Bloody Valentine finally got around to releasing “m b v” Saturday on its Web site (mybloodyvalentine.org), the follow-up to one of the more revered and influential albums of recent decades. The U.K. quartet's last previous studio release, “Loveless” (1991), isn't just considered a cult classic, it introduced a new musical language. It also inspired a legion of disciples in the same way that modest-selling...

Although mainstream country has often been critically derided, it's important to remember that from the mid-'80s well into the '90s, Nashville's major labels were home to some of the most distinctive female singers of the modern era, including Patty Loveless, a singer rooted in blue Kentucky soul. In the first of two shows she performed at the Old Town School of Folk Music on Friday, Loveless, 53, proved that time has not diminished her head-turning voice. Backed by a seven-piece band...

There are three sides to every story. His. Hers. And the truth. Last week, we heard his side of the story. Today you'll hear hers. You decide the truth. In his letter, Robert said his wife, Denise, had an affair two years ago. Since then, they have gone to counseling and have decided to stay together. However, things are not the same. After the affair, Denise told him that she didn't love him "in the same way" anymore and stopped kissing him with any passion. Denise's work is an...

Robert E. Loveless, Navy Vet. and Ret. C.P.D., suddenly, at the age of 73. Beloved husband of Edith, nee Behrendt; loving father of Renee (Arnie) Rowen; cherished grandfather of Ashley and Michael; dear brother of George (Josie); fond nephew of Adeline; special uncle to the Bartjen family. Also, Robert will be sorely missed by extended family and many friends in Germany and the U.S. Funeral Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, atColonial-Wojciechowski Funeral Home, 6250 N. Milwaukee Ave....